Elouise Pepion Cobell, et al. v. Gale A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior, et al.’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.3d 1081 · 2001
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 82 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Cobell v. Norton (2004), National Parks Conservation Ass'n v. Norton (2003)
47 federal appellate · 82 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Bell v. Wolfish · Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · United States v. Mitchell · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'statutes are to be construed liberally in favor of the Indians, with ambiguous provisions interpreted to their benefit'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“This departure from the Chevron norm arise from the fact that the rule of liberally construing statutes to the benefit of the Indians arises not from ordinary exegesis, but “from principles of equitable obligations and normative rules of behavior,” applicable to the trust relationship between the United States and the Native American people.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the Secretary cannot escape his role as trustee by donning the mantle of administrator to claim that courts must defer to his expertise and delegated authority”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edmonds v. Hammett · No. 04-35449
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.